Harry Potter and the Old Ones

The Leaky Cauldron at the end of June was not much different from usual.

At least for old Mr. Tom Abbott, that's how it's always been -

Except that more than a week ago, several serious-looking staff from the Ministry of Magic came here and posted a huge notice at the door of the Leaky Cauldron——

"Temporary Agreement During Voldemort's Resurrection"

There is a bunch of content at the bottom, to the effect that at least fifty witnesses witnessed the return of the mysterious man in the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic...Blah, blah, blah...In order to protect the lives and property of the people in the British magical community... … blah blah blah…

Old Tom glanced briefly——

Most of the instructions are not important. Rather than being temporary arrangements, they are more like life suggestions for a special period, or a reward without any purpose.

Most of them are things like "Don't travel alone after dark," or "Don't follow strangers to unknown places," or "If you feel you're being followed, run to a crowded place."

Among them, the one that worries Old Tom the most is——

"If you find suspicious people or inappropriate remarks, please report it to the nearby Auror in time. The nearby Auror will verify it. Those who report successfully will receive a minimum reward of five hundred and a maximum of two thousand gold galleons, depending on the situation. "

In addition, Old Tom received two large stacks of purple pamphlets with eye-catching text printed on them:

Hogwarts Education Reform Act

British Ministry of Magic Internal Purge Act

Whenever a new traveler came to the Leaky Cauldron, Tom had to give them two of these pamphlets—

In the words of the Auror who brought the two stacks of pamphlets: "This is an order from the Ministry of Magic."

In fact, this behavior is completely unnecessary, because as early as a few days ago, Cornelius Fudge's political reforms were reported by various media of the British Ministry of Magic. I believe that most well-informed wizards are already familiar with these two Contents of the booklet.

Even the Daily Prophet, which has always worn the same pants as Cornelius Fudge, has gone all out to undermine Cornelius Fudge——

"Mr. Nice Guy has revealed his true face and is plotting to become the next Demon King"

"Monsters of unspeakable power are approaching the Wizengamot"

"The despicable traitor betrayed the Ministry of Magic to the Muggle Army!" 》

But soon, after Cornelius Fudge led a team of Muggle troops to the Ministry of Magic, the direction of public opinion gradually changed——

"Cornelly Fudge Conquers the Opponents"

"Cornelly Fudge is raising money for his inaugural speech"

"The great and wise President Cornelius Fudge will officially take office as President of the Magical Federation tomorrow"

Of course Fudge's political reform was greatly obstructed at the beginning. There is no doubt that——

But just as Tiera expected, they were blocking Fudge from gaining such high power, rather than preventing Fudge from concentrating such high power.

They tried their best to manipulate the power and media in their hands to slander Fudge, and even directly used violence to force Cornelius Fudge to abdicate.

In everyone's eyes, Cornelius Fudge is like a piece of tender and delicious meat that he put on his own sauce, poured in his own oil, turned on the heat, and fried himself until it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

——And Cornelius Fudge did think so.

Every Minister of Magic had great ambitions to achieve something before he came to power, but soon their ambitions were wasted in compromises with various forces.

It would be fine if the Minister of Magic himself came from a pure-blood family. Relying on the power of his family, he could do one or two things that would make him famous in history or be infamy for thousands of years, regardless of one of the forces.

But good old guys like Cornelius Fudge can only play both ways, as if walking on thin ice, carefully meeting the needs of all parties in order to maintain their hard-won status and glory.

This has been the case since ancient times.

Wizards are a race with great power. To put it nicely, they are extremely free and self-respecting. To put it badly, they are like a piece of shit when gathered together and scattered all over the sky.

This is why wizards in the Middle Ages behaved so poorly when faced with the massacre of Muggles without the help of technology or any special abilities——

Because wizards have almost no organizational ability at all. No matter how skilled the wizards are and how powerful their individual abilities are, it will be difficult to gather into an organization that can fight against the flood of Muggles in the Middle Ages whose organizational power far exceeds that of wizards. .

And then again, even when faced with the massacre of Muggles in the Middle Ages, under such a crisis of national annihilation, wizards only formed a loose organization like the Wizards Council and something similar to asylum like Hogwarts. The same school, rather than forming a unified magical empire.

Unless an extremely powerful wizard appears, or is forced by some extremely dangerous external environment, the wizards will never be able to unite as a whole——

Grindelwald before 1945 did it, and Dumbledore after 1945 has always had the opportunity to do it.

Apart from that, there is no one else.

As Tiera said before, in a race like wizards that highly values ​​individual power, only absolute strength can bring absolute power.

If Voldemort's turmoil lasts longer, and if his unsatisfactory son does not join the Death Eaters, Barty Crouch will also have the opportunity to temporarily integrate the British Ministry of Magic into a highly united and unified organization——

But without absolute power, this highly united organization will not last long.

In the long history of wizards, even in the hundreds of years since the emergence of the Wizards Council, there have definitely been more than one dark wizard, or the president of the Wizards Council or the Minister of Magic who wanted to unify the entire British wizarding world——

Some of them relied on the dark wizards who attached themselves to them, and some relied on conspiracy and conspiracy. Like Tiera, they gathered all the power together, but soon——

These powers will be dispersed again.

Just like Tiera said, other forces in the Ministry of Magic have never opposed the concentration of power. What they object to is the concentration of power in others.

But how much power can you bear? Power that is not yours is never yours.

The vassal dark wizards will be alienated, and the conspiracies and intrigues will be overwhelmed by naked interests. The power gained through these will soon be eaten by the hungry wolf-like magical plutocrats, and the reunited power will soon be eaten up. Break up again.

The day before the speech, Cornelius Fudge was pacing nervously back and forth in the room——

His mood was now going back and forth between a state of extreme excitement and extreme worry.

Excited because he stands at a height that has never been reached by previous ministers of magic, and has mastered power that he has never had before——

Worrying because at this critical period, before he is about to give his inauguration speech, before he is about to wear the medal representing the General Secretary-General of the Magic Federation——

Tiera, who truly mastered absolute violence, disappeared.